Well, we are all alone again! Just me, Katy, and Andi are left. The team from Delonoga, Georgia, left this morning to head home. It is strange, yet again, to be by ourselves. It’s nice when groups are here, because we stay pretty busy. The team that was just here truly blessed us and took care of us, so it was really nice.

 

I think I updated on Thursday…so I’m going to update from that point. Thursday night, we went out to hang out with the street kids again. On our way out there, we saw one of the kids we know being beaten by a cop. They were searching him for drugs, but apparently they won’t arrest them if all they have on them is paint thinner. Whatever the case, these cops were having a major power trip by beating up on this harmless street kid. They need to go find something else to do with their lives. The kids on the street are pretty high, but they can break-dance like crazy. It’s pretty neat. There is one girl in particular that I’m praying for out there. Her name is Monica, and she’s probably 16 or so. She’s pretty thin, really dirty, has lice and bugs crawling all over her, and is most of the time pretty high, but for some reason I think she gets it more than the other kids do. It makes me wonder how these kids get to where they are… I mean, where they in school…do they have families? All I know is that they need a LOT of prayer.

 

Friday, we went downtown to serve breakfast @ the Mary Magdalena House. I feel like since we’ve been here, the number of people who come keeps growing. There were probably atleast 50 people there yesterday, so praise God for that! There is one woman who comes name Janette who used to live in the States, and speaks really good English. She’s pretty proud of the fact that she can too. She’s been involved in a lot of prostitution and alcohol, and her kids are too ashamed to call her their mom. She is making good progress, but needs to be in rehab. It’s pretty expensive, though…900 Quetzals a month, which is just over $100 USD, and would be way over her head financially. Be praying that we can find a way to get her help.

After the breakfast, the other team went sightseeing around Guatemala City. All of us interns stayed behind at the house and drowned a bunch of expired medicine from the clinic next door. It was a pretty nasty job…mixing not only pills, but antibiotic creams, cough syrups, and my personal favorite…. suppositories. It was great fun. Since the MM house is in probably the roughest part of Guatemala City, Raul stayed behind to watch out for us. He doesn’t speak much English…and we won’t speak much Spanish… so it was hard to communicate.

 

We had dinner party numero dos last night for the other team, mariachi band and all. It was a lot of fun…and the hamburgers and HOMEMADE potato chips were deelish. We were outside eating though, and it rained like crazy. I think it made the experience more memorable…especially since we’d already been through the whole routine once before.

 

Andi, Katy, and I are going up to Panajachel on Monday/Tuesday. We’re taking a bus out of Antigua and stayed the night in Panajachel… by ourselves. It will definitely be an adventure, and we’re pretty excited about it. We’ve tried to go with different groups atleast 3 times already…but something always came up…and now we’re finally getting to go!

 

It’s hard to try to explain what is going on in my head and in my heart. I don’t think words would be enough to really describe how He has changed my thinking.

The only way I can think to do this is to share something from my journal that I wrote on Thursday, so here goes:

 

“I had a wonderful God moment today on the way back from Antigua. I was in the back It of the pickup, and everything seemed perfect. The sun was setting, the mountains and flowers were so colorful and pretty, the breeze was blowing just right. Every part of creation that I could see was doing its thing just right, it seemed. It made me think about how God makes all these things do their jobs perfectly, so that I could be amazed at their beauty and be thankful for such a creative God. I feel like God wants us to do the same as people and as believers. If we all work together and play our individual parts with our unique gifts, it is a beautiful picture to Him and to those around us. Everything should work together to glorify God, whether it be people or plants or animals or stars, we were all created so that He can have moments like I had today, and can say that “it is good!”

Maybe everday is supposed to be spent have these “God-moments.” I think He just wants us to strive to act and be more like Him, and that will surely be something beautiful.